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Metropolitan Opera Adds Performances & Live in HD Screenings of ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’

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The Metropolitan Opera has done the unthinkable – the company has announced four additional performances of Mason Bates’s “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” this season. The opera, which opened the season and was only set to run until Oct. 11, 2025, will now get additional performances on Feb. 17, 18, 20, and 21, 2026. Moreover, the opera will {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2025-26 Review: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

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(Credit: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera) An immigrant and a gay man join forces to create art that defeats Nazis. While this simple sentence reduces all the complexities at play in “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay,” it also gets to the core of a battle that permeates to this day and provides us with the kind of hope {…}

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Works & Process to Spotlight Metropolitan Opera’s Production of ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’

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Works & Process is set to present The Metropolitan Opera’s “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” on Sept. 8, 2025 at Guggenheim New York in the Peter B. Lewis Theater. The evening will showcase an advance look at the new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” which will open the Metropolitan {…}

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Pioneer Works to Preview Met Opera’s ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’

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(Photo courtesy of Cultural Counsel) Pioneer Works will present a preview event for the Met Opera’s production of “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” on Sept. 14, 2025. The showcase will feature a conversation between production designer Mark Grimmer and comic-book expert and cover designer Chip Kidd. The event will be moderated by Dr. Miriam Mora, a historian of {…}

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The Metropolitan Opera to Open with ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’

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The Metropolitan Opera is set to open its 2025-26 season with the company premiere of “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.” The Met-commissioned opera is composed by Grammy Award–winning composer Mason Bates and written by librettist Gene Scheer. The work will premiere on Sept. 21 and run through Oct 11, 2025. In a statement, Bates said, “This story resonates {…}

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Juilliard Unveils 2025-26 Season

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Juilliard announces its 2025-26 season. This article only features classical voice events. Juilliard and Columbia University Present Italian Opera 200. Performance Date: October 5, 2025 Up next is the start of school’s “Liederabend” series. Performance Dates: October 8, November 19, December 10, 2025 & February 25 & April 1 & 29, 2026 “Sound On: Inward Journeys” features the Neue Vocalsolisten {…}

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Richard Tucker Foundation Announces Career & Study Grants

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The Richard Tucker Foundation has announced the career and study grants for 2025. The foundation said that mezzo-sopranos Meridian Prall and Nikola Printz, and baritone Ricardo José Rivera have been selected recipients of the 2025 Richard Tucker Career Grant. Recipients will receive a grant of $10,000 each. Meanwhile, the 2025 Sara Tucker Study Grant recipients are tenors Daniel Luis Espinal and Ben Reisinger, {…}

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Dutch National Opera 2024-25 Review: We Are The Lucky Ones

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(Photo credit: Koen Broos) Over the past twenty years or so, there have been plenty of programs on television, radio and the internet devoted to oral history, in which everyday people recall major and minor events along with the social and economic conditions from their own past to create an anecdotal montage that can be accessed by current and future {…}

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Limmie Pulliam, Asmik Grigorian, Liv Redpath, Malin Byström, Christian Gerhaher Headline The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2025-26 Season

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The Cleveland Orchestra has unveiled its 2025-26 season at Severance Music Center. Here is a rundown of the vocal performances on offer. Franz Welser Möst conducts a program of works by Strauss, Ravel, and Bern Richard Deutsch’s “Urworte” with The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus. Performance Dates: Sept. 26 – 28, 2025 Limmie Pulliam and Iurii Samoilov are the soloists for {…}